Senior Lecturer at the Future Economies Research Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University
Nick is a Senior Lecturer in the Future Economies Research Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University. With a background in public policy, Nick has worked on questions of taxation, public financial management, economic development and decentralisation for organisations including the European Commission and the UK Labour Party, as well as for developing countries and emerging economies. He has a PhD in Government from Harvard University.
Tax cuts rumoured but the UK's autumn statement will offer little economic comfort
Nov 21, 2023 04:01 am UTC| Economy
The UK chancellors autumn statement is likely to be relatively uneventful yet extremely significant. Although some headline-seeking tax cuts are rumoured, sluggish economic growth and persistent inflation leave little...
How a one-off tax on wealth could cover the economic cost of the coronavirus crisis
May 04, 2020 13:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The UKs annual public deficit is predicted to balloon from a previously forecast 55 billion to 273 billion by the end of 2020. This increase is the product of higher government spending to contain the human and economic...
A 'lifetime income super-tax' offers a new way to tax wealth and fix inequality
Dec 17, 2018 10:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing. So said Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister of finance to Frances 17th-century Sun King,...